When I moved from Boston to Los Angeles in 1996, the plot of what would become “The Elect Stories” was already (more or less) fully formed. While many of the characters and most of the world-building details have changed over time, the plot was already clear to me from...
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Ready to Cross The Threshold?
Enjoying your summer? Us, too! If you’ve been taking your Kindle along to the beach or the pool or even just to your own comfy couch, we hope “The Elect Stories” has made it onto your summer reading list and provided a bit of escape. In the first 4...
Paint It Black
If nothing else, this month’s cover art – a dark portrait lit with unnatural neon colors, our standard background “frame” warped and washed in black and gray – should tip you off that there are changes afoot in the world of the Elect. From the first page of this...
Unlocking Secret Knowledge: Chapter One Gets An X-RAY
Fantasy stories transport us to other worlds with the power of words. It is the nature of the genre that some of those words will be wholly new inventions of the author. We writers aren’t trying to be difficult, and (most of us) don’t enjoy forcing you to memorize...
Chapter 3 is now available via Amazon Kindle
With a new month comes a new installment, and this month’s story is one we’ve been looking forward to sharing for a long time. It was consistently ranked as a stand-out by the beta readers, and is one of the author’s personal favorites, as well. “Reward, or, The Calling...
I’m on Good Reads… Again! But Different!
I’ve started a new Author Profile on Good Reads! I’ve been on Good Reads for a while, though I honestly didn’t use it as much as would have liked. (I didn’t read as much as I would have liked, either.) Having the first installment of “The Elect Stories” published...
We’re Launching On The Kindle App. Why?
I’ve always thought it would be fun to publish serialized adventure stories like they did in the old pulp magazines. That’s how some of my favorite authors, like Fritz Leiber, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, first spun their yarns. We’re talkin’ old school. The idea of publishing...
So, about Chapter Two…
For me, the hardest part of writing this book is talking about it now that it is written. I just wrote an entire novel so it may sound strange that I have trouble putting together a few more words on the subject, but that’s the truth. Part of me...
Phase Two!
This weekend marks a month since we released the first chapter of “The Elect Stories” — and we can’t thank you enough for the positive feedback. Your support means everything. As we hit this one-month mark, we also roll into “Phase Two” (though, we’ve never actually called it that)....
I finally joined GoodReads!
I recently joined GoodReads and according to them, I have hundreds of Facebooks friends over there. Stop in and sit a spell! I even posted the first scene from chapter one of “The Elect Stories” for your reading pleasure!